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Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! When Lottie reads a magic spell that brings some mischievous Egyptian statues to life, the museum ends up in a complete mess! Can Lottie and her friends track them down before they destroy the whole museum?
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Sesen: The Egyptian Lotus is based on true relationships between people and in families from diverse populations with a diversity of thoughts. It includes love and romance along with strong emotions, moral values, and beliefs. The female lead struggles against the expectations for her culture and family, and the discrimination of all types she finds when she settles in the United States. However, her ambition, her hidden intolerance of Judaism, and...
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Ancient Egypt has always fascinated people. Pyramids from that civilization still tower hundreds of feet into the air. Museums featuring mummies attract large crowds. Countless numbers of tourists flock to Egypt to view historical sites that date back thousands of years. These historical sites are in danger today. Some of the reasons are natural. For example, sandstorms rip across the desert, acting like sandpaper on the stone monuments. Others, such...
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This introductory guide for beginners provides an introduction to the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and arithmetic, with a little light hearted humour. All the hieroglyphs portrayed within this book (over 780) are provided free of charge as keyboard characters. They allow the reader to create their own messages, names, numbers and designs which can be easily printed. These hieroglyphs are compatible with all software packages...
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This 7 session audio language course is an introductory guide to learning Egyptian Arabic, designed for beginners. It starts with fundamental greetings and introductions, helping learners to master basic phrases such as "Hello," "Good morning," and inquiries like "How are you?" The course then progresses to exchanging personal information, including questions about one's age, nationality, and occupation, which are essential for everyday conversations.
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"Dead men don't just walk out of hotels . . ." Penny faces her most baffling case yet.
Egyptologist Charles Hamilton is found dead in his hotel room, but then his body vanishes. With his wife missing too, Penny is perplexed.
Can Mr. Hamilton really be dead? Or is it an elaborate ruse? Evidence is thin on the ground and to complicate matters, not everyone is who they claim to be.
Penny must navigate her way through false identities and misleading...
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Egyptian News delivers late-breaking stories about ancient Egypt. From royal intrigue to military battles and pyramid building, these articles capture the most fascinating aspects of daily life thousands of years ago. There's so much happening in Egypt it's hard to keep track of it all. Pyramids are being built block by block. Battles are being fought with neighboring invaders, and there is always something going...
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Great Courses volume 16
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Explore why the calendar was crucial to Egypt's success as a nation, and learn how the civilization divided a year into months and seasons based on the activity of the Nile River. Then, find out how Egyptologists use ancient Egyptian calendars to pinpoint dates.
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Great Courses volume 15
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Learn the Egyptian way of writing whole numbers and fractions, which were used to keep track of everything from taxes to dates when the Nile would rise. Also, visit the mortuary temple of Ramses III, where a pile of hands reveals how many enemy soldiers were killed in battle.
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"Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom"
Modern Europe readily acknowledges how many benefits it received from Rome, from Greece, and from Judea, but has been willing to forget how much of its superstition came from Egypt.
When Christians shall at length acknowledge that many of those doctrines, which together now make up orthodoxy, or the religion of the majority, as distinguished...
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